Alarm from clock app can make the VOD playback position go back to 0

[tuxayo]

This is likely not related to the case remaining for #350 so better make another ticket.
And neither to the just fixed case of restarting from 0

1. in clock app (default for lineage OS in my case, com.android.deskclock) start a 2 min timer (likely less would also work)
2. have a vod with a playback position not 0
3. play it
4. pause
5. lock
6. wait 2 min
7. stop the timer alarm
8. see on the lockscreen that Xtra restarts playing
9. unlock
10. Notice that it started from 0

[crackededed]

i tried on emulator and stock samsung rom but xtra just stays paused for me. on emulator it seemed like xtra notification showed up briefly but the player was still paused at the same position after unlocking.

[tuxayo]

Thanks a lot for trying, I'll try on an emulator and compare when I can make my android dev env work again after year of disuse. Which version of AOSP did you run on it?

[tuxayo]

Oh wait, if you can't replicate this or the scenario in #350 (comment) maybe it's because your phone has more than enough RAM to not kill apps too quickly!!!
Or that the tuning by Samsung isn't the same on that regard vs the tuning of LineageOS, so even comparing wouldn't help much.
The emulator should have plenty of RAM by itself. And since there aren't other apps used that should help also.

I have a Fairphone 3 with 4 GB of RAM.

I don't know if there is a simple way to limit the RAM of a phone (via adb creating a new file in a text editor with random stuff and doing - select all - copy - paste - repeatedly should yield quickly an insanely large unsaved file)
But regardless maybe the following could be tried if that makes enough sense.

There is already code that detects the phone locking or switching to another app (the switch without triggering picture in picture mode)
Because with my settings, when playing a VOD, the app switches from video to audio only stream (and has to reload) when I lock the phone or switch to another app.
So if that same code could be used when the stream is paused to save the position